According to physorg.com (via popsci), the Cray Inc. XT5-HE supercomputer (Jaguar) is getting updated. The Department of Energy's Jaguar computer will be renamed Titan. This reported $97 million upgrade will be using AMD CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and is claimed to "be at least twice as fast and three times as energy efficient as today's fastest supercomputer, which is located in Japan." Good news for gamers.

Is Crysis still the paramount of crazy hardware needs ? I'd have spontaneously believed that since Crytek decided to port it on 6 years old console hardware, they'd have had to reduce their hardware requirements at least a little bit.

Unless they went Bethesda and made some incredibly unoptimized PC release as compared to the console version, that is.

Ya that's some good wording for sure "AMD's Nvida Tesla GPUs" for technical accuracy it should have read "AMD's ATI Nvida Intel VIA Tesla GPUs" just to make it pop.

In all seriousness I'm sure there is a sentence missing in there somewhere saying the ATI's being swapped for nVidia's, oh wait I said ATI...I meant AMD nVidia's lulz -Can't Stop won't stop! (way over tired here)

I submitted this poorly edited article. I should have had someone proof read it.

The statement from the link was. "The supercomputer at the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be renamed "Titan" after it is beefed up with speedy, powerful chips from California companies NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices."

I think this is non impressive, as the fastest super computer today, uses SPARC cpus. An GPU is many times faster than a CPU. When moving computations from CPU to GPU, you typically speed up more than 10x, often 50x. So when Jaguar moves computations from cpu to GPU and only get 2x.... I am not impressed of an GPU solution that is only twice as fast as a cpu solution.

That's a ridiculous statement without looking at how many GPU's are being added vs. the number of CPU cores. Jaguar has more than 224,000 AMD cores as it is. How many GPUs vs. CPUs they will be adding depends on to what exactly their workloads demands.